Fourteen (14) Iranian soldiers including members of IRGC were kidnapped near the border with Pakistan on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, Iranian media has reported.
According to the media reports, the Iranian security officials believe that the kidnappers are operatives of a terrorist group but they did not disclose which insurgent group is responsible.
A jihadist group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
The terrorist group Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice) claimed responsibility for the incident and posted two photos. The photos show seven members of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps force and five police commandos, all in combat gear and another photo show a haul of automatic weapons and rifles, rocket launchers, machine-guns, grenades and ammunition, apparently seized from the Iranian forces.
Jaish al-Adl, formed in 2012, was founded by members of the Sunni extremist group Jundallah (Soldiers of God) and is responsible of spate of attacks on Iranian security forces in recent years in the southeastern province of Sistan and Balochistan.
Sistan and Balochistan has long been a flashpoint, with Pakistan-based Baluchi separatists and insurgents carrying out regular cross-border raids against Iran.
